APIACE^E OR UMBELLIFER^E. 



90. F. Panmorium DC. prodr. iv. 142. Anethum Panmori 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 95. Various parts of India. 



Root white, nearly fusiform, and almost simple. Stem erect, 

 branched from the base to the top, from 2 to 4 feet high ; the branches 

 erect, round and smooth, with a uniform, pale, glaucous tinge, and not 

 striated. Leaves supra-decompound, divisions tapering, smooth and 

 filiform, but by no means so numerous as in Freniculum vulgare. 

 Umbels terminal, rather concave, but not regular ; the convex partial 

 umbels, of which there are generally from 10 to 20, standing on pedun- 

 cles of very unequal lengths. Flowers small, bright, deep yellow. 

 Petals long, ovate, with their points rolled in. Stamens longer than 

 the petals. Styles scarcely any. Fruit exactly as in Fceniculum vul- 

 gare and with the same taste. Used medicinally in India as a warm 

 aromatic and carminative, in flatulent colic and dyspepsia. 



ATHAMANTA. 



' Calyx 5-toothed. Petals obovate, emarginate or entire, with 

 a very short inflexed unguiculate segment. Fruit tapering to 

 the neck, taper or a little compressed from the side. Half-fruits 

 with 5 filiform wingless equal ridges, the lateral of which are on 

 the edge. Channels each with 2-3 vittae. Perennials or bi- 

 ennials, often villous on the stems and fruit. Leaves triternate or 

 pinnated ; segments cut or multifid. Involucre 1-or few-leaved; 

 involucels many-leaved. Flowers white. 



91. A. cretensis Linn. sp. pi. 352. DC. prodr. iv. 155. 

 Jacq. fl. austr. t. 52. Fee hist. nat. ii. 203. In open, 

 rough, woody, mountainous spots in the middle and south of 

 Europe. 



Stem rather villous. Leaves pinnated ; the segments trifid in linear 

 lobes ; the lowest hardly higher than the others. Involucre 1-or few- 

 leaved. Petals hairy at back. The fruits are aromatic with a warm 

 agreeable flavour, and a smell like that of marjoram. They were used 

 in the preparation of Diaphcenix, Venice treacle, and compound syrup 

 of wormwood. (Semina Dauci cretici Offirin.) 



MEUM. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals entire, elliptical, acute at the base 

 and apex. Fruit nearly taper. Half-fruits with 5 prominent 

 sharply keeled equal ridges, of which the laterals are marginal. 

 Vittae several in each channel, from 6-8 on the commissure. 

 Smooth perennials. Stem nearly simple, striated. Leaves supra- 

 decompound or pinnated ; segments multifid ; lobes linear 

 acute thin. Involucre hardly any ; involucels many-leaved. 

 Flowers white or purple. 



92. M. athamanticum Jacq. fl. austr. t. 303. Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2249. DC. prodr. iv. 162. Athamanta Meum Linn. sp. 



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